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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Sites
Restricting Computers
There might be occasions where a BigFix Client or a group of Clients is storing redundant Fixlet messages, typically due to an overlap in site content.

Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
- Sites
  - Introducing Sites
    Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by other vendors.
  - Selecting Sites
    Upon installation, the program is automatically set up to subscribe to certain management and maintenance sites. Depending on the terms of your license, you might have subscriptions to other sites as well.
  - Viewing Site Properties
    After initiating a subscription, you can inspect its properties and signing authorities.
  - Restricting Computers
    There might be occasions where a BigFix Client or a group of Clients is storing redundant Fixlet messages, typically due to an overlap in site content.
  - Restricting Readers
    Restrictions can be placed on Sites to limit access. As with operator permissions on Custom Sites, you can restrict both the operators and computers of most external Sites.
  - Creating Custom Sites
    You can create a Custom Site to host your own Fixlet messages that are pertinent to your network.
  - Canceling a Subscription
    You can try out different Site subscriptions for your organization, because no actions are ever taken without your approval.
  - Adding Files to Sites
    You can add files to a Site.
  - Viewing and Deleting Site Files
    After adding files to a site as described in Adding Files to Sites, you can view or delete these files.
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs

Restricting Computers

There might be occasions where a BigFix Client or a group of Clients is storing redundant Fixlet messages, typically due to an overlap in site content.

In addition, some BigFix Clients might collect superfluous Fixlet messages, as when a Linux machine retrieves Windows Fixlets. This poses no problem to the operation of the program, which knows to ignore irrelevant or redundant Fixlet messages, but it might consume Client disk space. The Site Subscription dialog lets you narrow down the number of clients subscribed to the selected external Site. Here is how:

Select the desired site from the Domain Panel.
Select the Computer Subscriptions tab. You have several choices for selecting computers.
- All computers. Click this button to automatically subscribe all Clients to this site. This is the default action.
- No computers. Click here to unsubscribe all Clients.
- Computers subscribed via ad-hoc custom site subscription actions. If you choose a custom site, this option is also available to flexibly assign computers on ad-hoc basis by creating an Action to subscribe relevant computers to the site.
- Computers which match the condition below. Click here and then create a condition that must evaluate to TRUE for the Endpoint Manager Client to be subscribed to the site. The default is to parse computer names, but the pull-down list contains several properties that you can use as useful subscription criteria. Press the plus sign to add more criteria. You can combine conditions by ANDing or ORing them.
When you are satisfied with how your computers subscribe to this site, click Save Changes from the Work Area Toolbar. Enter your private password to propagate the subscription request to your network.